His disastrous final battle overshadowed his prior achievements.

Partnerships Under Strain But in the last few months impending budget cuts and a bruising battle over a new teachers contract have overshadowed reform efforts and strained the unusual partnerships forged among the superintendent, the teachers union, business executives and parents.

That battle has overshadowed and perhaps scuttled talks between North and South Korea that started in Beijing this week.

The battle for Beit Jala overshadowed other fighting today, including a brief army lunge into a refugee camp at Rafah, at the southern end of the Gaza Strip.

A pitched battle over the out-of-court statements of the victims' families and the continuing tug of war over a defense expert in DNA overshadowed the continuing selection of alternate jurors today in the O. J. Simpson murder trial.

A well publicized battle with the estate of Fred Astaire which involved the usage of his name in the title almost overshadowed the song itself.

Baseball became revitalized in Kuhn's years as commissioner, but management's battles with Miller and the players' union overshadowed the turnaround.

Partisan political battles, and at times even among members of the same parties, often overshadowed education issues.

The battles between FISA and FOCA during the first years of the 1980s overshadowed the events on track.